MUSIC

New York Philharmonic: Handel’s “Messiah”

TUESDAY – SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 – 17, 2022
7:00 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM FRIDAY

David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$58.50-$249.50
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I know, big-band Handel on modern instruments: what could be more overblown and banal? But get one of the very best HIP conductors on the planet, Masaki Suzuki, to lead, and suddenly things get interesting.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kwame Onwuachi’s in-house Afro-Caribbean restaurant Tatiana (not to be confused with the one in Brighton Beach) isn’t open late enough for post-concert dining — a scandal if you ask me (maybe you can eat and drink and then concentrate hard on music for two hours, but I sure can’t) (to me, this is emblematic of Lincoln Center’s inability to conceive of the classical music segment of its audience as comprising anything other than the suburban and the decrepit). For an urbane experience, go to Bar Boulud after the show and eat and drink to your heart’s content.